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yellowish, a.|ˈjɛləʊɪʃ|
Forms: see yellow a.
[f. yellow a. + -ish1.]
Somewhat yellow; of a colour inclining or approaching to yellow; having a tinge of yellow.
1379Glouc. Cath. MS. 19 No. I. i. iv. lf. 11 It ys evirmare whityssh or ȝolowyssh. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. xxi. (Bodl. MS.), Nowe he [sc. the sea] is whitissche and ȝelowissche now white & clere. 1576Turberv. Venerie 184 The Badgerdwhelpes haue theyr nose, their throte and their eares yellowyshe. 1622Peacham Compl. Gentl. xii. 111 Linseede oyle will turne yeallowish. 1781Pennant Hist. Quadrup. I. 188 Yellowish monkey with a black face. 1823Scott Quentin D. Introd., His clean silk stockings, washed till their tint had become yellowish. 1884A. Lang in Century Mag. Jan. 323/1 The London houses of dirty, yellowish brick.
b. Qualifying adjs. or ns. of colour.
1615G. Sandys Trav. 68 They paint their nailes with a yellowish red. 1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2411/4 A yellowish bay Stone-horse. 1752Hill Hist. Anim. 499 The yellowish-grey Fringilla. 1816Stephens in Shaw Gen. Zool. IX. ii. 310 Yellowish-green Grosbeak. 1843Portlock Geol. 214 Miemite of a rich yellowish-green. 1882Garden 12 Aug. 145/3 Lovely yellow or yellowish scarlet tints.
c. Comb.
1693Moxon Mech. Exerc. (1703) 238 A yellowish coloured fat Earth. 1725Bradley's Fam. Dict. s.v. Goose, A goose..if yellowish footed and bill'd, [is] young. 1840G. V. Ellis Anat. 41 A thin, yellowish-looking band.
Hence † ˈyellowish v., to turn yellowish; ˈyellowishness, yellowish colour or tinge.
1590P. Barrough Meth. Phisick iii. xxvi. (1639) 146 His tongue is *yellowished.
1547Boorde Brev. Health lxxiii, An uryne that is yelow lyke the *yelowyshenes of an horne of a lanterne that is bryght. 1657W. Rand tr. Gassendi's Life Peiresc i. 196 A certain dark and obscure yellowishness [in a picture]. 1663Boyle Exp. Hist. Colours iii. xxviii, Bruis'd Madder..being drench'd with the like Alcalizate Solution, exchang'd..its Yellowishness for a Redness. 1941E. R. Eddison Fish Dinner xi. 184 The cloud⁓bank was indigo against that yellowishness of the sky. |